Mack Mattingly

Mack Francis Mattingly (7 January 1931-) was US Senator from Georgia (R) from 3 January 1981 to 3 January 1987, succeeding Herman Talmadge and preceding Wyche Fowler. He was the first Republican senator from Georgia since Reconstruction.

Biography
Mack Mattingly was born in Anderson, Indiana in 1931, and he served in the US Air Force from 1951 to 1955. He worked for the IBM Corporation in Georgia for twenty years, and he opened his own office supplies company in Brunswick, Georgia. In 1964, he supported Barry Goldwater's run for President of the United States as a Georgia Republican Party official, and he served as its chairman from 1975 to 1977. In 1980, he defeated Herman Talmadge in the US Senate, the first Republican senator from the state since Reconstruction. In 1986, Wyche Fowler defeated him for re-election, and he served as ambassador to Seychelles from 1992 to 1993. In 2008, he endorsed John McCain for president.